CRUNDALE, a parish in the hundred of WYE,
lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 8 miles (S.W, by S.)
from Canterbury, containing 250 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £11. 10. 10.,
and in the patronage of Sir J. Filmer, Bart. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary. The Rev. Richard
Forster, in 1728, bequeathed a house and land, now
producing" £5. 16. per annum, which is applied to teaching
eight children. At Crundale Green considerable remains
of a Roman sepulchre were discovered in 1703,
in which were several skeletons, urns, and other vessels,
both of earthenware and glass, with some coins, trinkets
for females, &c., supposed to have existed so early as
the second century.